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of ore ; and durmg 1907, 36 deposits, with an output of 21,878 tons. On 
the 1st January, 1908, the properties were transferred to a new company, 
the Bobbili Mining Co., Ltd., registered in Madras. The capital is 
Rs. 10,00,000 in shares of Rs. 100 each. Of this about Rs. 6,00,000 
were allotted fully paid up to vendors. The managing agents are 
Messrs. W. A. Beardsell & Co. of Madras. 
The existence of manganese-ores in the Sandur Hills, forming the 
Sandur State. Messrs. State of Sandur in the Bellary district of Mad- 
A. Ghose and Jambon and pas, was recorded as long ago as 1839 by New- 
Cie., and the General i ini f x i.i ' ■, 
Sandur :Mining Company, Dold^ ; a lew 01 the Occurrences were noticed 
Limited. by Mr. R. Bruce Foote, in his report on the 
geology of the Bellary district, pubhshed in 1895 2. It was not, how- 
ever, till 1905 that any attempt was made to ascertain the true value of 
the deposits, and open them up. In this year Mr. A. Ghose visited these 
hills on behalf of Messrs. .lambon and Cie, of Calcutta, and started to 
open up the Ramandrug deposit in the same year 3. During the next 
two years he discovered and mapped a large number of deposits, finding 
some of them to be of large size. During 1905 and 1906, 1,200 and 
3,208 tons of ore, respectively, were shipped, the quantity being small 
owing to transport difficulties. At the end of 1906 Sir Vincent Caillard 
joined Mr. Jambon, and in the middle of 1907 the business was con- 
verted into a company entitled The General Sandur Mining Company, 
Limited, with a capital of £320,000 ; this company has secured the 
monopoly of the manganese- and iron- ores of this State for 25 years (see 
page 99*). 
The Central Provinces. 
Up till 1899, Vizagapatam was the only district in India producing 
manganese-ore. In this year, however, Mr. W. H. Clark, and in 1900, 
Mr. Harvey Dodd, both of the Vizianagram Mining Company, Limited, 
prospected in the Nagpur district, following up the references given in 
Ball's Economic Geology. 
To the already-known deposits of Mansar and Kodegaon they 
W. H. Qark, H. Dodd, added Gumgaon, Ramdongri, Kandri, Beldongri, 
and the Central P.ovin- g^^^k:, and Lohdongri. The Central Provin- 
ces Prospectmg Syndicate <-, -,-. t ^ 1 
(Nagpur, Baiaghat, and ces Prospectmg Syndicate was formed to work 
Bhandara). these deposits, the members of the Syndicate 
being Messrs. J. H. Glass, P. Macfayden, andH. G. Turner, with Mr. Clark 
1 3Iad. Jour. Lit. Set., X., p. 125, (1839) ; XI., p. 46, (1840). 
2 Mem. G.S.I. . XXV, pp. 98, 100, 125, 194, 19-5. 
3 Date of first prospecting license — 15th March, 1905. 
